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India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world.

It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right coalition of political parties in India.

At the time of its formation in 1998, it was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and had thirteen constituent parties.

Its chairman was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Also representing the alliance are L.

K.

Advani, former Deputy Prime Minister, who is the acting chairman of the Alliance, Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister and Leader of the House in Lok Sabha; and Arun Jaitley, Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha and Finance minister.

The coalition was in power from 1998 to 2004.

The alliance returned to power in the 2014 General election with a combined vote share of 38.5%.

Its leader, Narendra Modi, was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014.

The Indian Administrative Service (IAST), often abbreviated to I.A.S., or simply IAS, is the administrative arm of the All India Services.

The service is considered to be the premier civil service of India.

The IAS, the Indian Police Service (IPS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS) comprise the three arms of the All India Services.

Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states.

IAS officers may also be deployed to various public sector undertakings.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralised test for admission to 19 National Law Universities in India.

43 other education institutes and two public sector institutes are also eligible to use these scores.

The test is conducted by the 19 participating law schools in rotation, in the order of their establishment, starting with National Law School of India University which conducted CLAT-2008, and up to National University of Advanced Legal Studies which conducted CLAT-2018.

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

It is located in New Delhi, the capital of India.